Oncosperma fasciculatum on the road side

[doranakandawatta]

I know someone who climbed very steep and difficult remote mountains in order to find Oncosperma fasciculatum in habitat:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/39996-oncosperma-fasciculatum-in-habitat/?hl=%2Boncosperma+%2Bfasciculatum

The same one (me) traveling by three-wheeler (easy to check the road side and stop!) saw in his last journey (500 km) again Oncosperma fasciculatum but just on the road side:

1. on Hatton road, near Carolina:

2. in Passara, on Badulla road:

3. somewhere where we were lost, near Kotmale:

[stevethegator]

Love the habitat shots! What other species are native there?

[doranakandawatta]

Steve,

I can't name all but :

Actinorhytis callaparia (not endemic)

Areca concinna

Areca catechu

Borassus flabellifer (in north dry zone)

Calamus species

Caryota urens

Corypha umbraculifera

Check on the search tool or through my profile older threads I posted

[AlekLO]

Philippe
stay without ext when watching your posts with pictures ... a true paradise

[stevethegator]

Thanks!

[doranakandawatta]

Sorry,

I have forgotten THE endemic wonderful Loxococcus rupicola (you can see my old posts).

[Oliver K.]

Yes, truly fasciculatum -erm- fascinating pictures. Doesn't that tempt you to collect some seeds somehow?

[doranakandawatta]

Yes, truly fasciculatum -erm- fascinating pictures. Doesn't that tempt you to collect some seeds somehow?

Oliver,

It happens sometimes, and some of them grow now in Doranakanda garden, as you can see if you check on my old content.

I hope I can find seeds of the Oncosperma filamentosum in Peradeniya and propagate these palm before the poor old tree disappear.

When visiting quite often, one is able to check the fruiting period of the trees and collect some seeds the next visit.